TecnAlimentaria Arabic Edition 2022/2023 - Beverage Industry

VLS Technologies, an innovative approach to liquid treatment

VLS Technologies represents worldwide a single reference point for the client for both the aspect of filtration and more complex needs that involve the whole process of liquid treatment: that is made possible by the production plant in San Zenone degli Ezzelini in the Province of Treviso, northeast Italy, as well as by an established worldwide network of agents, authorized reselling and assistance. In addition to traditional applications, the focus of VLS Technologies is also the development of innovative solutions such as cross-flow filtration systems and reverse osmosis.

VLS technologies for soft drinks, juices and sugar solutions

Thanks to its great experience, VLS Technologies can offer the consultancy and the design of technologies for the filtration and treatment of food liquids also for the sector of fruit-based drinks, soft drinks and sugar solutions.

In these areas, the most innovative technologies by VLS are designed to meet the particular production needs. Among the different solutions suitable for the treatment of soft drinks and juices we can find TLS cross-flow filter, SFT sheet filter and reverse

osmosis plant, while for sugar solutions the best technologies are FRS rotary drum vacuum filter, FVV D.E. vertical filter and FOC D.E. horizontal filter.

Two rotary vacuum filters for the Indian market of fruit juices

For the sector of fruit-based drinks, VLS Technologies has signed a partnership with one of the main Indian producers of fruit juices, that has purchased two rotary vacuum filters with a surface of 25 sq.m. to filter apple juice. FRS filters have been designed for the filtration of products with high content in solids through the usage of filtering adjuvant substances as kieselguhr.

Customized FRS filters for sugar syrup: a special solution for Coca Cola

For the innovative plant of Coca Cola Thailand, partner company of the international manufacturer of drinks for the Thai market, VLS Technologies has supplied two special FRS rotary drum vacuum filters, used to filter the sugar syrup, which is then used to process sugary-based drinks.

VLS Technologies is always focusing on the customer’s needs and, through the identification of the best possible solutions, designs and manufactures tailored technologies. Find out more at www.vlstechnologies.it

TMCI PADOVAN is a historic Italian company, based in Italy’s North-East area (near Treviso), leader since 1919 in food and beverage technology sectors worldwide. The company’s evolutionary path has oriented its business towards alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages.

The first sector in which TMCI has specialized is the oenological one, up to becoming the reference point for many wineries throughout Italy and around the world. Padovan division is still a cornerstone today, but it is not limited to providing machinery for the wine process: distillates, oils, vinegars, ciders, carbohydrates, industrial filtration and much more.

Filters, pasteurizers, cleaning systems, refrigeration or heat exchange systems: the range offered by Padovan is varied and custom made.

In 1985, TMCI decided to expand by acquiring an English company called Chemtech International.

Based in Theale, Chemtech is now the business unit specialized in the production of machineries for gelatine, margarine, cocoa butter, oils and fats and products for pastry and bakery.

The products that characterize this division are certainly the scraped surface exchangers (Chemetator), but no less important are the deodorizers, pilot plants, process tanks, pasteurizers, and much more.

Another end-product on which TMCI wanted to focus is beer, both craft and industrial.

Starting with single machines (filters and pasteurizers) it gradually built its reputation, which was undoubtedly strengthened when the VELO brand was acquired in 2014. In 2018, the team multiplied, thanks to the acquisition of the Vicenza-based company Impiantinox; from that moment Easybräu-Velo brand is the undisputed protagonist in the brewing market.

The range of products offered is vast: brewhouses from 1 to 100 hl, auxiliary accessories (dry hop, yeast propagators, etc.), fermentation and maturation tanks, cleaning systems (CIP), and filters and pasteurizers for the industrial world.

When it comes to non-alcoholic beverages, such as soft drinks, fruit juices, energy drinks, nectars and fruit concentrates and puree, syrups, flavoured and non-flavoured waters, milk and derivatives, and slightly alcoholic drinks such as hard seltzer, kombucha, fruit cocktails, alcopops and various, the SAP-Blendtech division comes into play. Like the other divisions, SAP-Blendtech designs and creates customized solutions according to the customer’s needs.

The heart of the division is certainly the syrup room, which follows the product in the entire process phases: sugar dissolution, which can be continuous or discontinuous, syrup clarification treatment, dosage of micro-components and aromas, preparation of the final syrup and realization of the finished product.

To complete the range of SAP-Blendtech products we have filters, tunnel and in-line pasteurizers (plate or tubular), evaporators, desulfurizers, CIP, aseptic lines and machinery for blending and mixing, such as premix, carbonators, mixers-pasto-carbo and much more.

In 2021, TMCI Padovan acquired SAP Italia, a world leader in food plants based in Melegnano (MI) and which since 1983 has offered technological solutions in the construction of plants for the food industry, and more precisely in the water sectors, fruit juices, soft drinks, dairy sector, ice cream and much more.

Thanks to the new synergy created between the two companies, TMCI enriched the range of existing products, and significantly broaden the range of action.

TMCI Padovan company is present all over the world, with four production sites in Italy and many offices scattered around the four corners of the earth.

The company’s strengths, across the four divisions, are certainly:

• The speed of reaction at the time of the first contact with the customer,

• The ability, thanks to the preparation of its technical department, to identify customer needs and produce the offer that best suits the needs of the individual,

• Versatility, which allows TMCI to provide customized products,

• The possibility of offering semi or fully automatic machines, thanks to a dedicated automation office,

• The speed of analysis, response and intervention of its after-sales office, which accompanies the customer in every necessary step.

SMI: even more functional and sustainable packaging

Nature plays an increasingly important role in the everyday life of all of us!

Thanks to investments in industrial plants equipped with smart and green technology, like the machines supplied by SMI, food & beverage companies will save on energy, reduce the production environmental impact and use recyclable and biodegradable packaging materials to manufacture packs in film or cardboard. Future is always full of challenge. SMI solution for competitive market!

The companies influenced by the trend of strong product diversification, need very flexible and efficient bottling and packaging plants in order to reach high levels of optimization and competitiveness of production lines. Furthermore, in an economic environment that is increasingly oriented towards eco-friendly solutions in the use of plastic packaging, a growing number of companies have chosen to use rPET (100 % recyclable PET) bottles and cutting-edge technical solutions, like those supplied by SMI, in order to save energy and reduce the production environmental impact.

Recent studies clearly show the advantages related to the use of PET plastic bottles, containers that are unbreakable, safe, with great barrier properties, light and above all recyclable. When compared to other packaging materials, like glass or aluminium, traditional PET and, above all, its 100 % recyclable version (rPET), has a good environmental profile, especially thanks to its lightweight, that results in less material to be produced, less material to be disposed of, less energy used to manufacture it and less fuel used for the transport of packed products. SMI manufactures bottling plants and packaging machines with an innovative design, equipped with IoT technology, providing to its customers, located all over the world, with smart solutions, able to meet their requirements in terms of competitiveness, production efficiency, operational flexibility, energy saving, easy management and monitoring of the whole production process

The EBS ERGON series of stretch-blow moulding, available both in “stand alone” version and in “combi” version, integrated with filling and capping systems (ECOBLOC® ERGON series), ensure high performances in the stretch blow-moulding of rPET, and PET bottles of different shapes and capacities from 0.10 L up to 10L mainly used for the food, beverage and detergent industries, able to meet production requirements up to 36,800 bottles/hour

Thanks to high-tech components, low maintenance and running costs and great quality/price ratio, SMI machines are the best solution for producing plastic containers.

Solutions for tethered caps

The tethered caps, that stay attached to the bottle after having been opened, will become an object of everyday use for European consumers from 2024, when 2019/904 directive will enter into force. The EU directive establishes the minimum recyclate percentage in plastic beverage bottles (25% starting from 2025 and 30% starting from 2030) and states that the caps of PET bottles have to be attached to the container, so that they can be recycled together with the bottle, thus avoiding they end up as waste in the environment.

SMI, aware of the challenges posed by this directive to beverage manufacturers, offers solutions for producing containers with a percentage of recycled PET in compliance with 2019/904 and supports customers in order to evaluate the right tethered cap solution. Green solutions for the primary packaging. Main advantages of EBS series

• stretch-blow moulding system based on a high efficiency rotary technology, equipped with motorized stretch rods

Design of sustainable containers

Today all the main food and beverage manufacturers aim at promoting sustainable lifestyles in compliance with circular economy and support the importance of the responsible use of resources and recycle. Their commitment starts from the use of PET plastics: a 100% recyclable and regenerable material.

Thanks to an advanced CAD center for 3D design, SMI supports companies in the design and graphic realization of a wide range of 100% recyclable PET containers, featuring high quality and lightweight in order to save energy and material

for a precise management of the stretch rod cycle and a significant energy saving;

• ultra-compact plant: the preform heating section is integrated with the stretch-blow moulding section in a single module;

• reduced energy consumption, thanks to the preform heating module equipped with high efficiency IR lamps and to the stretch-blow moulding module equipped with a double stage HP air recovery system;

• ergonomic structure that ensures an easy maintenance and a high safety level;

• high performance low dead volume valves, that reduce pre-blowing and blowing times, therefore improving efficiency and quality of the bottles;

• easy and fast format changeover, thanks to MotorNet System® automation and control system that ensures constant maintenance of the optimum processing parameters and the direct modification of the machine settings. The advantages of the ECOBLOC® ERGON integrated solutions of blowing-filling-capping.

• The integration of stretch-blow moulding, filling and capping functions into a single machine allows to considerably reduce costs, as well as the space occupied by the solution, since the rinser and conveyors between the stretch-blow moulder and the filler are not needed. This also leads to reduce contamination risks and to reach a higher hygiene level.

• High-efficiency rotary stretch-blow moulding system equipped with motorized stretch rods, whose functioning, controlled electronically, does not need mechanical cams. This allows a precise management of the rod path and an accurate control of its position, as well as a significant energy saving.

• The carousel blowing process has been reduced, thus making the stretch-blow moulder more efficient by 17 %.

• The filling process is extremely precise, thanks to the use of the flow meter, an electronic device installed near each valve that detects the flow of the product that fills

each bottle by counting the pulses and sends the filling valve the closure sign, once the value of the format in use is reached.

• A wide range of products can be filled thanks to the valve terminal that is changed according to the type of product.

Green solutions for secondary packaging

Within secondary packaging, SMI offers a wide range of automatic machines for packing in an efficient and eco-sustainable way several types of containers with an output up to 450 packs per minute (in triple lane) and applications that ensure energy saving.

Depending on the type of product to be packed and on the reference market, it is possible to choose the most appropriate packer among a wide range of automatic shrink wrappers for secondary packaging in stretch or recyclable film or among packers that use corrugated, kraft or Arcwise® cardboard

All automatic packers produced by SMI are inspired by Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT) concepts and ensure cost reduction, energy saving, environmental sustainability and increase in competitiveness.

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Interactive tour to discover sustainable solutions

SMI still thinks about all those customers who, due to restrictions related to Covid-19, cannot travel to go to the Italian headquarters or to take part in trade fairs.

In order to find out the advantages of SMI complete lines, customers are invited to access the interactive tour, available on the web site www.smigroup.it: a journey inside two complete line solutions featuring sustainability and compliance with Industry 4.0, that allow to discover the cutting-edge technology to reduce the carbon footprint, energy consumption and waste material.

Flexible market-driven organization

In a global market where competition is getting fiercer and fiercer, the possibility to guarantee a “next door” service is for SMI a key factor to effectively and successfully support customers wherever they are. Thus, over the years SMI has set up a widespread network of branches and representative offices in order to extend the service to the widest number of clients.

Thus, over the years, SMI has set up a widespread network of branches and representative offices in order to extend the service to the widest number of clients.

Pack-Sim: 3D design and simulation of the complete bottling line

Scanny3D S.r.l. is a highly specialized company that deals with the design and production of reverse engineering systems, in particular 3D laser scanner and CAD-CAM software development for industry. One of the most important sectors, in which Scanny3D products find application, is packaging and bottling.

The PACK-SIM software, conceived and produced by Scanny3D, was developed entirely for the rapid, fully automatic and extremely accurate design of stars and screws for the bottling sector.

The software consists of several modules. The star module is able to simulate up to 3 gripping heights at the same time and guarantees full compatibility of the generated surfaces (exportable in STEP and IGES formats) with the main CAD-CAMs.

The SCREW module, on the other hand, facilitates the design of 3D screws and counter- screws of any type (transport, rotation, grouping, inversion, singling, etc.)

for bottles, flasks and containers of any shape and size. Furthermore, the software allows the design of screws of any type by defining customized motion laws. Through an easy-to-use interface, the software allows the definition of the law of motion of the bottles along the screw with different data entry modes and allows them to be

customized in terms of speed, rotation and position of the bottle during handling.

A special function allows the generation of the star in 3D, allowing the automatic creation of the alveoli in 3D to ensure a better adaptation of the lateral surface of the alveolus to the surface of the bottle or bottle. In this way, handling accuracy is considerably increased and correct contact tolerance is ensured even in the case of delicate bottles. The simulation is carried out in a few minutes and allows you to obtain a 3D model of the screw with a perfectly smooth surface ready to be made.

Finally, the multistar module allows the graphic simulation of the entire bottling line.

For Scanny3D, the innovation process has always played a central role and is powered by the constant relationship maintained with customers and their technical feedback on the systems used. The R&D department designs systems that are increasingly accurate, reliable but at the same time easy to use for the end customer, thanks to the use of cutting-edge technologies, especially in the field of 3D.

Pietribiasi Michelangelo is specialized in the construction of equipment for the dairy industry, soft drinks, juices, beverages, and ice-cream.

Today, the Pietribiasi name is among the more well-known in the dairy and beverages sector and the company is internationally acknowledged, particularly in the realization of “turn-key” projects regarding process of liquid foods.

Looking deeper into the company’s products range, Pietribiasi covers the development, project design and supply of complete lines for the processing of milk and its derivates like cream, fermented products (yoghurt, sour cream/ Smetana, kefir, labneh, etc.), fresh soft as well as semi-hard and hard cheese, mozzarella/pasta filata/pizza cheese, butter and other products processed from cow, sheep, and goat milks. Wide experience in UHT plants and aseptic lines.

Pietribiasi is also very well-known for ice cream mix preparation and pasteurization.

Another core business is the production of CIP plants and own centrifugal separators

P.E. has been able to grow over the years and position itself among the market leaders

P.E. Labellers has made labeling history throughout the world, thanks to its ability to adapt labelling machines to the new production requirements of companies and to the increasingly high-quality standards imposed by the market. It was founded in 1974 in Mantua (Italy) and for almost 50 years P.E. Labellers has shown continuous growth in the global market.

The company is now a world leader in the design and manufacture of automatic and fully modular labeling machines featuring superior standards.

P.E. Labellers is an Italian company that boasts 100% Made-in-Italy production, with 95% of its revenues developed on international markets. Over the years the size of the company has steadily increased and extended globally: Today P.E. Labellers consists of 9 sites distributed between Italy, US and Brazil, with about 500 employees, 90 service experts out of which are present worldwide. Since 2017, P.E. Labellers has been part of the US multinational group ProMach, a world leader in Packaging.

P.E. Labellers has been able to grow over the years and to position itself among the market leaders in the design and production of automatic labelling machines, thanks to its ability to adapt labelling solutions to the new production requirements of companies and to the increasingly higher quality standards imposed by the market. How? Always prioritizing customers. Listening to them, visiting them, studying their different production needs, interpreting their business targets. This is how, year after year, the requirements expressed by companies have become P.E.’s technological asset.

The key point is flexibility: The extreme modularity that P.E. machines bring to the field, to the advantage of companies of even very different sizes and markets.

Whatever the production needs to be satisfied, the proposed automated solution can combine the different labeling technologies, starting from a central machine body and adding modular stations of various types. From pressure sensitive to cold glue, from pre-cuts with hot melt to combined labeling solutions.

P.E. plays ahead of the needs of companies by offering Design Innovation smart solutions, with the strength of 62 patents filed.

The driver is always the customer’s production requirement to be met, the speed to be achieved and the types of “clothing” with which to “dress” - and give value to - products and containers that differ in material, features and size.

As always, you need to protect what’s most precious: the ability to provide specialized services for each type of machine, in every geographical area, relying on a team of 90 technical profiles, globally distributed, represents a highly valuable feature. It means being able to count on non-stop assistance, even remotely, on specific and evolutionary maintenance programs, dedicated training, at the customer’s premises or in the equipped classrooms of P.E. University.

P.E. Labellers modular machines meet the needs of many sectors: Beverage, Food & Dairy, Wine & Spirits, Personal & Home Care, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Pet Food.

The manufacturing strategy adopted by P.E. Labellers is based on the concept of “Vertical Production”, which has

led to the creation of 8 different Centers of Excellence in Design & Manufacturing. Its globally distributed production sites are highly specialized in the development of special lines of automatic labelling machines, operating independently while remaining strongly integrated into P.E. Labellers.

Today, the Lean Production of the P.E. Labellers group leads to the creation of 7 lines of labelling machines and 500 machines produced every year, exported all over the world and largely managed remotely. All machine components are processed in an automated way and each part is mass-produced to ensure high quality control and strong reduction of material waste.

Endless passion for innovation

P.E. puts another flag in the labeling world and launches the revolutionary Simpl-Cut™ technology, which changes the rules of Roll-fed operation, worldwide SIMPL-CUT™ by P.E. Labellers won the coveted PMMI’s Technology Excellence Award at the Pack Expo in Las Vegas, the world’s most important packaging fair. Winner of the most innovative solution in the General Packaging category.

Why is P.E. different?

Strength is in flexibility. It’s a fundamental concept that winks at evolutionary principles themselves. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change, Darwin teaches us. P.E. LABELLERS has built its leadership on this key element and the market continues to prove it right. For 50 years.

Bruno Negri, Senior Vice President P.E. Labellers

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The company Navatta, founded by Mr. Giuseppe Navatta in 1983, produces and installs fruit and vegetable processing lines and boasts references across the globe.

Navatta, the global supplier of integrated fruit & vegetables processing equipment and lines, providing well proven and innovative solutions for a full range of plants also thanks to the numerous companies’ acquisitions over the years, such as Dall’Argine e Ghiretti in 2001, a 40–yearold company world famous for rotary can pasteurizers and tomato pulping lines; Mova, in 2010, with extensive experience in bins handling, bins and drums emptying, palletizers and depalletizers, washing systems; Metro International, in 2012, leader in fruit and vegetables processing, boasting international patents for juice and puree extraction, concentration plants and thermal treatment; Ghizzoni Ettore, in 2012, specialized in special batch plants for ketchup, sauces and jams.

Manufacturing range

Navatta Group manufactures and commissions processing lines, systems, equipment for fruit, tomato, vegetables for:

• Peeled / diced / crushed tomatoes, tomato sauces and purees, tomato paste, all filled into any kind of package or in aseptic;

• Diced, puree, juices (single strength or concentrated) from Mediterranean / tropical fruit, all filled into any kind of package or in aseptic;

• Fruit crushing lines from IQF, frozen blocks and frozen drums;

• High yield patented fruit puree cold extraction, fruit purees / juices equalized in aseptic;

• Wide range of evaporators to produce tomato paste Mediterranean and tropical fruit concentrate;

• Aseptic sterilizers;

• Aseptic fillers for spout bags/ spout-less Bagin-Box 3 – 20 liters, Bag-in-Drum 220 liters, Binin-Box / IBCs 1.000 – 1.500 liters;

• Piston fillers;

• “All-in-one” pasteurizer / cooler spirals;

• Formulated products productions (jam, ketchup, sauces, drinks) starting from components unloading to dosing, mixing, mechanical / thermal stabilizing, to filling into any kind of package or into aseptic;

• Processing pilot plants;

• Vegetable processing as receiving, rehydration, cooking, grilling.

Navatta Group’s headquarters and the two production units are located in Pilastro di Langhirano, Parma, with a total production area of 10,000 square meters. A new area of 10,000 square meters has recently been purchased and is ready for the third processing unit to be built.

Vision: Passion is the factor that drives us to higher targets, in terms of technology, products and services.

Mission: To constantly increase customers’ satisfaction and fidelity.

Mini Motor wireless technology: COA – Can Over Air New patented technology known as COA to become the benchmark in the field.

Mini Motor was established in 1965 but it wasn’t until 1974 that the company came into being as the industrial electric motor manufacturer it is today. The company started with metals and electricity, later adding electronics and computer engineering to its competencies. Industrial automation and mechatronics were then introduced in the late Seventies and early Eighties. These were two strategic traits for Mini Motor and already in its DNA at the time of its inception.

Research, development, and innovation: COA – Can Over Air, Mini Motor’s new wireless technology

In 2012, Mini Motor set on a road of R&D and design innovation with the introduction of on-board drives on gearmotors and servomotors. As a result of this, a wide range of products were designed and developed for several years. At the same time, the company was working with various types of FIELDBUSES, initially with analogue fieldbuses (Canopen and Modbus) and then the more advanced ethernet buses (Profinet, Ethercat, Powerlink and Ethernet IP). All this led to a considerable reduction of wires and drag chains but, most importantly, to greater electrical panel efficiency, as the drive system was delocalised and built into the motors.

In 2018, at the end of this phase, the focus shifted to a new, ambitious, and exciting project: Mini Motor wanted to

do more for the general economy of a machine. And so, it created COA - Can Over Air Mini Motor has developed a proprietary wireless bus based on ZIGBEE technology at 2.4 Mhz that enables wireless control of the motor. The information is simply sent via a coordinator provided by Mini Motor that acts as a transparent wire, making it possible to remotely manage format changeovers or speed and torque changes.

This new patented technology, known as COA, is set to become the benchmark in the field, just like the wire had been. The new range will be identified with the letter “W” at the beginning of the code and can be adopted on all Mini Motor products with built-in drives in the DBS and DR series and on the very latest FC - Fast Change range for highspeed format changeover. Mini Motor always has a foot in the door of the future. Join us in this road to innovation.

MGM Motori Elettrici is the leader in brake motor technology, manufactured in Italy and consolidating its reputation and presence in the market for 75 years in Europe and in the world. MGM Motori Elettrici’s facilities in Italy include the main production plant in Serravalle Pistoiese (Pistoia) and a warehouse with commercial offices in Assago (Milan). Further plants in Montreal (Canada), Detroit (USA), Chennai (India) and Izmir (Turkey) complete a global presence further enhanced by a network of distributors for sales and assistance in more than 75 countries. The success of MGM AC brake motors is owed to the ingenuity of an innovative design created in MGM laboratories. With great ambition, three years ago the company set out to further upgrade its brake motors. The first step was to discuss and receive feedback from consultations with over 100 technical departments at its customer sites around the

world. With focus on the features and improvements they would like to find in their ideal brake motor. MGM Motori Elettrici’s goals were not only to meet the recommendations provided by its customers but also to extend the life cycle of its motors, to increase the average energy efficiency and to give priority to the use of recyclable material with low environmental impact. Since 2008, the average amount of energy MGM products need to operate has steadily decreased. In addition, by rethinking and redesigning materials and the production process the company has reduced the energy needed for the manufacture of its brake motors with a significant reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions. MGM Motori Elettrici felt it appropriate to speed up this process.

All single-speed motors are available with the level of energy efficiency in accordance with the new European

regulation that has entered into force since July 1st 2021, the brake coils are undergoing improvements in terms of reducing energy consumption and increasing performance. Motors with IEC frame sizes 100 and 112 were the first to be presented in the market with most of the planned upgrades. The dimensions compared to the current production will be reduced, the frame offers an optimal heat dissipation capacity and allows, thanks to two dedicated lifting eyes, greater ease of handling. The terminal board has been made more accessible, simplifying the connection and reducing the installation time for the benefit of the end user. The rotors have larger active parts for the benefit of the motor efficiency with a low moment of inertia with important advantages for the motor in terms of dynamic performance and ability to make a high number of starts/stops per hour. The remainder of the motor frame sizes will receive the same improvements during this year.

For MGM Motori Elettrici sustainable development and respect for the environment have always been very important goals. In the Serravalle Pistoiese plant almost 100% of the electricity consumed is produced by the photovoltaic panels placed on the roof, the air conditioning is supported by a geothermal system and the consumption of drinking water has been reduced.

The ME full electric series belongs to the company’s flagship products. For several years, it has been manufactured in a variety of models, with customers’ and processors’ support, on the basis of market requirements and developments.

The latest model, ME-L20/D-LS1300, is a long- or medium-long stroke machine. Here, as elsewhere, technology answers the specific needs of a big multinational customer active in the supply of bottles for cosmetics and personal hygiene market. The customer company has commissioned no less than seven machines of this type, five with 1300-mm stroke and two with 700mm stroke.

Patented adjustable transfer and a closing system with eccentric arm pushing in the middle of the plates mean the two main strengths of this new model. What is more, it boasts all-electric technology, just like 90% of Magic’s production.

It is designed for any companies that need to produce large quantities of pieces.

Like all of Magic’s machines, it can be tailored to meet individual requirements. Nothing is standard, because

Magic is a manufacturer, not just an assembler of pieces. Magic manufactures all of its machines in its two factories, located in Monza and Besana Brianza (MB). Hence the mechanical structure of its technologies is 100% Italian made.

All-electric technology

Magic built its first electrical machine back in 1997 – that is, long before this type of technology became widespread and popular. Since then Magic has manufactured approximately 70-80 machines per year, 90% of which are electrical. Magic was the first company to industrialize the product; it has kept committed to doing research and making gradual improvements in the machines. They started with small machines, and later switched to powerful technology with adjustable transfer with rack and pinion.

Electrical technology brings many benefits to customers.

It is not just about reducing energy consumption; it can boast many competitive edges compared to oil dynamic blowing machines.

Electric energy is used intermittently – that is, only while moving -; whereas in an oil dynamic machine, with an

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equal number of cycles, the pumps work non-stop to maintain pressure in the system.

The philosophy of the electrical system with patented closing changes the concept of massive use of tonnage in standard oil dynamic machines. Based on perfectly parallel plates, electrical machines require low tonnage, even compared to that applied for safety reasons. The cycles controlled by electromechanical components ensure precise repeatability in time, thus translating into a higher return on the investment. What is more, they make the company cleaner and quieter.

ME L20/D LS1300: Specifications

Magic’s latest machine is available in two models and three versions, to cater to different production requirements. One is fitted with a 10-outlet head, with 10+10 blowing holes and a distance between centres of 120 cm; the other has an 8-outlet head, with 8+8 blowing holes and a distance between centres of 150 cm.

It is not an existing machine that has been “adapted” or made electrical; it is a brand-new product for the market. These two models have joined the approximately 25 existing models of Magic’s blowing machines.

Welcome to LCZ, dedicated since 1971 to design, manufacturing, installation, service and maintenance of industrial boilers for standard and special applications: plug in solutions, package solutions, site erected plants.

LCZ over the years has been able to adapt the proposal to market evolutions, thanks to constant and continuous improvement, regarding the product as well as the fabrication processes, without forgetting the hallmark: careful analysis of customer’s requirements by its technical department aimed at drawing up the most focused, customized and detailed answer.

It’s source of pride for LCZ to affirm how its products are fully realized in its manufacture plants emphasizing an Italian identity and a “Made in Italy” have always stood for high quality.

A manufacturing system, organized in two manufacture plants both in Italy and one of this with a covered area of more than 40.000 sqm, is well-characterized by automated welding processes, non-destructive tests (X-rays-L.P.), an home production of the furnaces FOX

(corrugated) all supported by management using software as SAP ERP. These are some evidences of a capacity and a productive process that allow LCZ to be one of the best worldwide manufacturers of boiler. Its internal technical department provides process and mechanical design in compliance to PED, machinery and ATEX directives,

GOST-R, TS-TR and ISO 9001 certifications; according to European standards.

In addition to historical products as Firetube steam boiler (up to 30Ton/h) and thermal fluid generator (up to 9MW), LCZ propose Firetube boiler for hot and superheated water, Watertube steam generator, Waste gas heat recovery boilers downstream cogeneration and industrial plants. The relentless pursuit of the satisfaction of customer’s requirements has led LCZ to introduce the prefabricated thermal plants for the production of hot and superheated water, steam and thermal oil. They allow to have a turnkey thermal plant ready to use, for outdoor installation and removable.

Current commitments: energy saving, energy efficiency’s improvement efficiency during the plant lifetime and emission reduction. For this aim, LCZ boilers can be configured with an efficiency up to 95,5% (in specific application up to 105%) and for operating without continuous supervision up to 72 hours and/or with a global control system of the plant or the whole boiler room by a PLC or a multichannel electronic control device.

Galigani Filtri is a leader in the design and construction of filter presses and relevant filtration systems.

Since 1958, the company has boasted over 3,000 installations in 5 continents, created with skill and professionalism, in order to offer a high-quality product and a support service for users, installers, and designers.

The company is based in Italy, located in a modern facility in the heart of Tuscany, where it makes use of the most modern systems of research, study, and design so as to best solve the problems of each individual application, as well as provide adequate pre- and post-sales assistance through its qualified technicians.

Furthermore, the company is also equipped with a laboratory for filtration testing on samples supplied by clients to determine all the necessary parameters

required for sizing the filter press that is most suitable for their needs. Production includes filter presses and pumping units that feed the filter presses.

The wide range of filter presses varies from manual discharge machines to fully automatic machines run by modern PLCs.

Galigani Filtri manufactures filter presses for all types of applications: food, chemical, pharmaceutical, explosive atmospheres (ATEX), purifying waste water, acid filtration, aggregates, mining, galvanic industries, recycling industries, and so on. All machines are equipped with the most advanced safety devices.

The press filters and filtration systems that are manufactured by Galigani Filtri carry out “mechanical” filtrations, and therefore the liquid does not undergo chemical changes.

Filtration can occur on the synthetic filter cloth, which retains solid particles up to 1 micron, or on cardboard for particles that measure less than or equal to 1 micron.

When it comes to the most technologically advanced systems that Galigani Filtri can provide for filtration and clarification before bottling, the Diatom and the Clearness systems are in the forefront.

The Diatom system is comprised of a filter cloth for the filter press and is equipped with all the necessary parts (tanks, pumps, valves ...) that are required for filtration processes using various aids (fossil shell flour or cellulose flour, perlite...).

The Clearness system is a filter press with an Aisi304 or Aisi316 structure, which uses cardboard filters and a plate pack that is entirely sealed and protected from contact with the external environment.

Guaranteed first-class design and manufacture of centrifugal separators

With more than 100 years’ experience, the Frautech brand name is present in dairy, beverage, and food plants all over the world and is a byword for long-term experience in design and manufacturing of centrifugal separators.

Frautech Separators Srl, owner of the FRAUTECH SEPARATORS brand, is a modern and dynamic company, enhancing the prestige of a name traditionally synonymous with reliability, innovation, and high technology.

The company is located in Marano Vicentino (Vicenza), Italy, and has highly qualified personnel for the manufacture of centrifugal disc separators for the food industry. Ever since construction of the first machine in the 1920s, Frautech Separators has always offered advanced products. This motivation distinguishes this company, which continues to design separators with the utmost attention to detail, using materials of excellent quality. The use of electronic systems for full control of the equipment allows it to build machines with high separation efficiencies, saving operating costs and ensuring low energy consumption.

The wide range of Frautech Separators two-phase, threephase and solid-bowl and selfcleaning models, and the use of high-quality materials means that the separators can

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be used in many different applications. Frautech Separators continuously researches new technologies applied in the separation business. A staff of experienced engineers is qualified to offer the ultimate solutions, with the ambition to fulfill even customers’ most demanding requirements.

Your dairy and beverage partner

Frautech Separators’ full range of dairy separators includes clarifiers, bacteria removing clarifiers, milk and whey skimmers and automatic milk standardization systems. Its solid bowl and self-cleaning separators cater for capacities from 1,000 l/h to 60,000l/h.

Frautech Separators clarifiers help you get the best out of your beverage. Whether your raw material is an apple, a grape or malt, its specially designed ArtBEV clarifiers are able to maintain the highest nutritional value and all the health properties of your product.

Frautech Separators provides a plug-and-play solution that fits perfectly into your processing line. Its separators are easy to install, operate, and maintain, with an extremely efficient separation for your beverage plants.

The experience of more than one century of activity, the careful selection of quality components, and valuable partners reward the confidence customers place in Frautech Separators.

A matter of destiny …

Pursuing our own destiny to get going again and discover the needs and new stimuli of our own self. Ilaria Zilio, owner of Finpac Italia – a business reality that boats 400 machines running very often 24 hours a day in 40 Countries all over the world, since this company numbers among its customers big national and international groups of various sectors, such as food, beverages, dairy, and home cleaning.

“Finpac Italia has pioneered in Europe in sleeving machines production, where “sleeve” means “label”, and is second only to a big Japanese group. To this challenge Ilaria has added another player: Finpac Sleeve, a company established to support Finpac Italia in three crucial phases: Design, trade and post-sales. The goal is simplifying and improving business processes and hitting all the targets of the new industrial plan over a four-year period, to boost the company’s turnover up to 6 million euro. In 2022, the company is going to strengthen its technological investments in research and development in terms of Industry 4.0 and machine revamping.

“Investments of 220,000 euro have been distributed in years 2022-2025, in addition to 240,000 euro paid by Finpac Sleeve for trade development and strengthening”, says the entrepreneur who also stressed out another important goal: Defining and valorizing an intangible and seemingly immaterial good, which is however a remarkable part of Finpac Italia’s heritage: its know-how. “It can’t be questioned that it has enabled the company to stand out in global marketplace and to reach top-level customers with its products and machines. That is why today we cannot but enrich it more and more by innovating and investing.”

The company has already followed some progammes and pursued goals; “We are working to re-launch our company by participating in international trade fairs. We took main stage in Milan, at Ipack-Ima, and shortly we will be at drinktec in Munich, and later on at Gulfood in Dubai, Simei in Milan, in India and in Mexico. In addition to this, we are also designing two new machines, one at low speed to meet the demand of Italian market, where lower speed and lower numbers are required. We are therefore focusing on the world of wine and beer, and designing a hot-air oven to support the steam one, as to immerge ourselves into a green, sustainable and energy saving perspective.”

Although the macro-economic scenario is not favourable, since in 2022 we are witnessing raw material shortage, especially electrical, that has been giving some companies a really hard time, and among them there are also some Finpac suppliers, Ilaria Zilio has no doubt: “Following my attitude in which I strongly believe, I am trying to boost that network of relationships and cooperation that I deem fundamental. And it is not a chance that in and out of the company I always tell my employees “We are a team, only together we win”.

A solid family-run business with more than 50 years of experience, strong local roots and a pronounced international vocation: this is Elvem’s identity card. Located in Cartigliano, in the province of Vicenza, Elvem focuses its core business on the electric motor industry. The origins of the company date back to the early 1960s when Luciano Baron founded EBL (Elettromeccanica Baron Luciano) and thanks to his strong initiative and determination he managed to make the company known and consolidated all over the world.

The second generation now leads the company with a particular attention to technological innovation and development. Thanks to the stock of almost 150,000 units including finished motors, components and semi-finished products, Elvem guarantees a complete service to the customer. One of Elvem’s strengths is the ability to customize the product according to specific requests, afterwards testing it in a cutting-edge test room. Examples of this are the specific motors for food industry; the brake electric motors used by woodworking machinery to those more specific for theaters; motors for high or low temperatures; ATEX for areas at risk of explosion.

In recent years, motors with built-in inverters have been very successful, since they allow remote monitoring and programming, under the valuable guidance and support of Elvem’s technical staff.

Elvem has always been sensitive to issues of efficiency and energy saving. For years, it has been aiming to promote and sensitize the market to the use of products that guarantee a sustainable tomorrow. Already in 2019, Elvem presents the new series of permanent magnet

motors (PM), a result of an innovative and technological development and a latest generation product, both in terms of efficiency and performance, which comply with European and international regulations on the protection of the environment and citizens’ health.

Elvem’s main focus is offering high-performance products with low energy consumption, reduced business management costs and low environmental impact. At the same time, the company has invested in the design

of the casing, with an aim to make it more compact, easy to use, with efficient heat dissipation.

Offering customers an efficient, fast and personalized service has always been Elvem’s driving philosophy since the beginning, combining every day the expertise typical of Italian manufacturing with a company able to provide a dynamic and flexible response to the contemporary global market. To find out more, visit the website www.elvem.it

COMEI Industries, synonymous with technological innovation

COMEI Industries is an Italian company with 30 years of experience, certified ISO 9001 and specialized in the design, construction and installation of AISI 304 and 316 stainless steel containers. COMEI Industries is today synonymous with innovation, competence and professionalism.

The production plant is located in Corato (BA), and is located on an area of 10.000 square meters of which 3.000 are covered.

The company is able to manufacture tanks without setting technical and dimensional limits, all in compliance with the strict design regulations in force.

For two years, it has undertaken a mission for developing the technologies and systems for food drinks with the opening of a branch in Susegana (Treviso), and is spread over an area of 5.000 square meters of which 2.000 are covered.

COMEI Industries has technicians and technologists able to propose technologies in the enological-soft drink-beer sectors. The company, with the two plants, is able to satisfy the following requests:

Enological sector

- Standard and custom-made grape harvesting tanks.

- Cochlea for transporting grape-fruit processing waste.

- Sloping flat bottom wine-makers from 5,000 to 50,000 liters capacity.

- Conical bottom wine-makers on legs from 50,000 to 200,000 liters of capacity.

- Tanks on legs, made on company site, for food and industrial products from 1,000 to 200,000 liters of capacity.

- Tanks, built at the customer site, from 200,000 to 2,000,000 liters.

- PED tested autoclaves from 1,000 to 60,000 liters.

- Cold solution refrigeration plants with relative pumping station.

- Tube in tube, multitubular or tube bundle exchangers.

- Thermo-vinification plants for the extraction of the color from red grapes.

- Multiple effect concentrators with thermocompressor for reducing energy consumption, from 1,000 to 20,000 liters evaporated hourly.

- Sulfur dioxide strippers from 5,000 to 30,000 litre/ hours, with energy recovery.

- Bottle heating rain type tunnel complete with bottle drying system.

- 1-2-3-4 stages plate pasteurizers for wine and concentrates.

- CIP for cleaning tank and bottling lines.

- Saturators.

Soft drinks

- Syrups for the production of soft drinks.

- Batch and continuous sugar breakers.

- Mixers from 3,000 to 50,000 liters per hour, with online control of brix and carbon dioxide.

- Water saturators complete with deaeration system.

- CIP with 1-2-3-4 tanks, with steam or electric heating system.

- 1-2-3-4-5 stages plate pasteurizers with steam or hot water.

- Pasteurizing tunnels for glass or pet bottles, cans, jars.

- Cooling tunnels glass bottles, pet bottles, cans.

- Heating tunnels for glass bottles, pet bottles, cans.

- Tanks for sugar syrup and concentrates with stirrer.

- Water dispensers, juices.

Beer

- Brewhouse from 500 to 6,000 liters per brew.

- CCT from 500 to 60,000 liters.

- BBT from 500 to 60,000 liters.

- 3 stages plate pasteurizers with buffer tank output.

- Pasteurizing tunnels for glass bottles, cans.

- CIP with 1-2-3-4 tanks, with steam or electric heating system.

Plants have a level of automation in line with the demands and needs of their customers, offering semi-automatic, automatic or fully automatic systems; equipped with PLC and integrated supervision system, able to meet all the requirements for beverage production. The company is also able to offer turn-key lines and support clients in the study of the processes.

BBM SERVICE: you-oriented solutions for your food&beverage packaging plant

BBM Service is the only partner able to offer 360° support and a customized service.

Italian Excellence. BBM SERVICE is an Italian company with a long experience in the beverage sector, specializing in the design and supply of beverage bottling plants. Flexibility and fast service are just some of the reasons why the top players in the beverage sector have chosen BBM Service for more than 15 years.

BBM Service is a single point of contact for market and budget analysis, study of the line layout, machine supply and installation, safety protocols and logistics management.

BBM Turn-Key Services

1.Used, overhauled machinery to reduce your investment and make a green choice

BBM has an impressive selection of used packaging machines, which are fully overhauled and upgraded to guarantee the same or better performance than last-generation machines. BBM offers the best of the second-hand market, including blow-moulding machines, mixers, fillers, labellers, shrink-wrappers, wrap-around case packers, tray formers, overlapping cardboard sleeve packers, pallettizers, and much more! Customers can view the machines and follow the overhauling and start-up process at a distance, or visit BBM 10,000-square meters showroom in Lenna (Bergamo, Italy).

2. Top-class spare parts, available always and delivered fast

Spare parts shortage? No problem: BBM has a vast storage of compatible spare parts and is able to reproduce out-of-market parts thanks to reverse engineering. All spare parts are compatible with OEM, tested, and certified; BBM invests in research and development to provide free pass material of the highest quality, at prices that are 10-20% lower than the market average. BBM has a great entourage of foreign commercial agents to facilitate commercial operations in EU and non-EU territories.

3. Technical assistance & engineering

Based on the expertise of 20 years of experience and with a team of over 50 qualified technicians, BBM offers a complete range of services to support the customer at the customer’s plant: line dismantling and relocation, format change, planned plant maintenance, and training. BBM also provides a 24/7 remote assistance service. What else? BBM offers its know-how, structure, and a qualified team for highly specialized engineering activities. Its portfolio consists of machinery upgrades that are thought for exploiting the machine’s full potential and achieving energy and cost savings.

Visit BBM online store

At www.bbmpackaging.com you can go through the full catalog of BBM’s used machines and accessories. You can find the machine layout, machine technical details, and videos of the machines in action. Contact info@ bbmpackaging.com for a free quotation, they will be happy to help you with your requests. Do not worry if you can’t find a machine that matches your needs: BBM will adapt the machine to your market and production needs.

Read of BBM success stories

Discover the News section of BBM website and follow BBM on Linkedin at BBM Service – BBM Packaging to keep up with the best references of our group and discover the latest innovations of the top brands in the sector.

Albrigi Tecnologie: storing, mixing, weighing, measuring, dosing, transferring, heating, cooling and processing liquids with special vacuum or pressure processes are its specialty

Albrigi Tecnologie can define itself as a world leader in the production of stainless steel systems for food, wine, chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, bio-nano technologies and oil industry.

For many years, Albrigi Tecnologie has been studying, researching and experimenting new solutions with the main aim of realize complete turnkey systems with liquid transfer and processing technologies. Albrigi Tecnologie produces tanks, reactors, ripeners and mixers with the highest quality, in order to offer to customers, services and technologies aimed at money saving, reducing costs, times and pollution, limiting or totally eliminating mistakes and contaminations. All these advantages permit to increase production and help customers to obtain a prestigious and high-quality product.

Following the evolution of the market and production needs, Albrigi creates both external and internal systems for the storage, mixing and processing of food liquids in compliance with the safety regulations, according to the HACCP, FDA, PED, ATEX, anti-seismic regulations which are fundamental rules that dictate the basic requirements of Albrigi Tecnologie plants, tanks, reactors, ripeners and mixers.

All systems are complete with pumps, pipes, weight and level sensors, liter counters, manual and pneumatic valves, with inert gas – nitrogen - CO2 – argon saturation, high performance electrical panels. These last are monitored by P.C. and PLC for the management of transfer processes, that operate both in manual and in automatic mode, equipped with customized programs with algorithms, which reduce labor up to 70%.

A wide range of systems make it possible to condition new and existing tanks by cooling jackets, heat exchangers, thermal plates, pipe insulation, thermal power stations, complete with heat pumps, refrigeration units, boilers, steam and diathermic generators oil. Albrigi’s heat generators can be used with low, medium and high pressure and temperature; the excellent performances are the result of a design and construction aimed to ensure maximum energy savings combined with maximum reliability and durability.

For Albrigi plants is used a special finishing called “High Clean Inside”. It is the result of a process that starts from a careful selection of top-quality raw materials, and from the subsequent processing of the sheet metal surface: welds perfectly pierced, subsequently pickled, passivated, flattened, scordoned, rolled, laminated then shaved and mirror polished.

In this way, during the washing processes, any type of obstacle is reduced and consequently is also limited the consumption of water, energy, and detergents.

Washing is a very important phase: it is essential to clean and prepare all the equipment and systems for the processes for which they are designed.

Albrigi Tecnologie is specialized in the study and application of programmable manual and fixed automatic washing systems, managed by PLC, with customizable software and process self-checking systems up to complete sanitization and sterilization in every internal or external point, always respecting environment by reducing pollution, washing times, energy use and purification costs up to 80%.

Albrigi is not only specialized in the study, design, technical assistance and certification of the plant, but also offers the customer a wide range of accessories and spare parts. Albrigi consider them as an indispensable service for the realization and complete maintenance of the plant.

Albrigi: Ingenuity, style and technology at the service of the food industry.

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SIRA, the washing, rinsing, filling and capping monoblock

The monobloc washer for gallon bottles SIRA has been designed by AKOMAG for washing and sterilizing PET or PC gallon bottles or other bottles of various sizes, to be filled with still water. The washing cycle adapts to the various production needs of the end customer and is very effective. For this machine AKOMAG has designed and produced a special spraying and brushing device for gallon bottles that ensures total cleanliness. Through the use of special mobile nozzles furniture (penetrating and rotating), the machine washes the bottle internally at high pressure (5 bar). While the outside is brushed by means of nylon brushes. The machine can be quickly adapted to the different bottle formats by simply setting the type of container to be handled on the control keyboard. The stainless steel control board installed next to the monobloc is easily accessible for the operator. The panel is equipped with a touchscreen for the complete management of all line functions, and the display of operating parameters and alarms. The monobloc features an automatic de-capper in stainless steel: A pneumatic system grips the bottle neck while ejecting the cap. The system is safe, but it can be equipped with a system for the selection and ejection of gallon bottles that have not been properly de-capped. The bottles are then filled by means of special inverter- controlled pumps.

A valve designed by AKOMAG guarantees a laminar flow and no contact between the valve and the bottle. The filling is carried out by means of a special metering device that ensures extreme filling accuracy. The capper consists of soundproof vibrating hopper, a descent channel, and a tear-off pick-up head.

The closure of the bottle is guaranteed by an inclined pressure belt characterized with adjustable pressure. All adjustments are automatic and managed from the control panel.

WS is a company, founded in 2005, working as process equipment supplier for the beverage industry. During these years, WS has achieved a very good reputation in the beverage industry field, managing to cooperate with the major global players, such as Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, Nestlé Waters and Orangina-Schweppes, and with private investors installing new production facilities, quite often green fields, in emerging Countries.

WS has met new standards for product quality, energy saving and maximum plant output while complying with the strictest criteria for hygiene and safety

All the devices are entirely conceived and designed to guarantee the best requirements in terms of microbiological, physical-chemical and organoleptic properties; the entire production process and software development are managed internally, as well as installations and commissionings which are carried out with WS’s own resources.

WS’ products for beverage industry are:

• water purification plants (mechanical filtration, microfiltration, reverse osmosis, UV disinfection, sterilisation) designed according to the customer’s exigencies and the chemical analysis;

• sugar dissolving systems (single batch, double batch and continuous up to 35.000 l/h);

• semiautomatic and automatic syrup rooms;

• premix units;

• flash pasteurising units;

• ozone generators;

• carbonating equipment (water, wine, beer, soft drinks);

• in line syrup blending systems and ingredients mixing systems;

• steam sterilisable microfiltering systems (juices, beer, wine);

• mineralising equipment;

• equipment for preparation of non-chemical bottles rinsing and disinfecting solutions (such as ozone) and chemical solutions preparing devices (peracetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, chlorine, etc.);

• equipment for the preparation of sterile water;

• manual and automatic CIP systems

Thanks to its skill and process expertise, today WS is widely present worldwide even with turnkey solutions including ancillary equipment (cooling equipment, boilers, etc.).

WS’ philosophy is to manufacture high-quality and reliable equipment, equipped only with top brand components: Alfa Laval, Endress+Hauser, Pall, Anton Paar, Siemens, Festo, Spirax Sarco are the typical components our Customers will find on Their plants. The choice of providing only state-of-the-art solutions has brought us to be appointed as officially authorized integrator by ALFA LAVAL

Between main technical references, WS can list the supply of two fruit juice tubular flash pasteurizers for aseptic filling to ORANGINA-SCHWEPPES in France; furthermore, it’s significant to point out that WS is included in NESTLÉ WATERS’ authorized suppliers list for water purification systems: recently an important contract for the supply of a top-technology water treatment plant in the far East has been finalized.

Amongst last supplies (early 2016), WS also boasts a complete line for soft drinks production in Las Vegas –USA (Coca Cola co-packer): from water treatment to

hot fill pasteurizer, through sugar syrup preparation and ingredients mixing, also including CIP equipment.

WS considers Customer Service one of the greatest keys to success: entire business, marketing, sales and profits depend on customers’ satisfaction so the after sales team is constantly trained to perform the simplest solution in the shortest possible time to support the customer’s business.

“BLENDSYSTEM M” Premix Unit

The growing market’s confidence gained by process plants manufactured by WS, allowed a continuous development of blending technology for carbonated soft drinks (CSD) production to such an extent that We reached a very high level of specialisation in manufacturing mass controlled blending systems, named BLENDSYSTEM M.

BLENDSYSTEM M is a piece of equipment for preparing beverages, completely preassembled on a skid for an easy and quick shipment and installation, conceived mostly for the production of carbonated soft drinks (CSD), but also

carbonated mineral water (CMW) and still water (charged with nitrogen in order to increase the mechanical resistance of the bottle). The required quantity of ingredients (water, syrup, and CO2) is carefully measured and dosed in an electronically controlled continuous process.

The whole system, realized to guarantee the highest qualitative standards and a qualitatively constant production, also running in conditions of considerable format change, is completely preassembled on stainless steel circular-section skid for an easy and efficacious cleaning. It usually includes the following subsystems:

• inlet water deaeration: a vacuum pump removes incondensable gases; the pump is conceived to maintain the dissolved oxygen level below 1 ppm values;

• carbon dioxide dosing (or nitrogen in case of still mineral water production): a modulating valve and a mass flow rate transmitter inject carbon dioxide in quantity that is proportional to water quantity loaded to the deaeration tank; the water flow rate is usually measured by a magnetic flow rate transmitter, which may be replaced with a mass flow rate transmitter in case water presents a very low electrical conductivity level. A special gas injecting and mixing systemspecifically developed by WS - performs a careful mixing with the water to be treated and, hence, best results in terms of product perlage; the carbon

dioxide contents is maintained constant in the product receiving tank by a supervising software, which checks possible fluctuations in feeding water temperature and product buffer temperature; the effective dissolved carbon dioxide contents in the product is checked using a carbometric unit, installed in by-pass on the filling machine feeding line;

• syrup dosing and mixing: at first syrup is stored in a small buffer tank, whose atmosphere is modified and enriched with carbon dioxide in order to avoid oxidation occurrence. Syrup injection is made by a sanitary design modulating valve and a mass flow rate transmitter in a quantity which is proportional to the water amount fed from the deaeration tank; furthermore, using the mass flow rate transmitter, it is possible to check constantly the effective density of the inlet syrup and therefore to compensate immediately for the dosing and to stabilize the sugary concentration in the end-product within established bounds (usually ±0,05 °Bx). A specific refractometer installed in bypass on the filling machine feeding line, allows the constant check of the product and, if necessary, its adjustment; similarly, the instruments minimize waste of both syrup and product during transitory phases of production, such as start and stop.

Furthermore, customized solutions for product cooling are also available, depending on the environmental conditions of the system installation.

The supervising software loaded on the mass premix unit - BLENDSYSTEM M - is conceived to guarantee the best results in terms of dosing, offering at the same time an easy control by a friendly user interface; this software enables on one hand to set the main production parameters and visualize their state graphically and on the other hand to set the statistics parameters (ca, cp e cpk) connected to that kind of production.

Using a more advanced version of this software, associated with specific instruments, it is also possible to control automatically saccharose inversion, so that the need of intervention by laboratory technicians is reduced. The equipment is equipped with field buses (MPI, Profibus or Ethernet) for a complete integration in the bottling line and the control of production, cleaning and sanitizing processes.

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INDEX - Beverage Industry

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Beverage Industry www.watersystems.it II^ cover, 8-11

Beverage & Food Industry www.azgomma.it 12

A. WATER SYSTEMS SRL

A.Z. GOMMA SRL

Beverage & Food Industry www.aeraque.com 13 AERAQUE SRL

Beverage Industry www.akomag.com 14-15 AKOMAG SRL

Beverage Industry www.albrigi.com 17-19 ALBRIGI SRL

Beverage Industry www.bbmpackaging.com 20-21

Beverage Industry www.comei.net 23-25

BBM SERVICE SRL

COMEI INDUSTRIES SRL

Beverage & Food Industry www.elvem.it 26-27 ELVEM SRL

Beverage Industry www.finpacsleeve.com 29-31

Beverage Industry www.frautechseparators.com 32-33

Beverage Industry www.galiganifiltri.com 1, 34-35

FINPAC SLEEVE SRL

FRAUTECH SEPARATORS SRL

GALIGANI FILTRI SRL

Beverage & Food Industry www.lcz.it 36-37 LCZ SRL

Beverage Industry www.magicmp.it 38-39

Beverage Industry www.mgmrestop.com 40-41

Beverage & Food Industry www.minimotor.com 2, 42-43

Beverage & Food Industry www.navattagroup.com 45-47

Beverage & Food Industry www.pelabellers.com 49-51

Beverage & Food Industry www.pietribiasi.it 52-53

Beverage Industry www.scanny3d.com 4, 54-55

MAGIC MP SPA

MGM MOTORI ELETTRICI SPA

MINI MOTOR SPA

NAVATTA GROUP FOOD PROCESSING SRL

P.E. LABELLERS SPA

PIETRIBIASI MICHELANGELO SRL

SCANNY 3D SRL

Beverage Industry www.smigroup.it 5, 56-59 SMI SPA

Beverage Industry www.tmcigroup.com 61-63

Beverage & Food Industry www.unical.eu 3

Beverage Industry www.vlstechnologies.it 64-65

TMCI PADOVAN SPA

UNICAL AG SPA

VELO ACCIAI SRL